Show me your wheels.....mobile assembly tables

[George Farra]

Hi Everyone

I'm planning out a new assembly table that will be a 4 post design with a lower shelf for storage. I'm looking for solutions to get this mobile when I need to move it around. I'd prefer a set-up that allows me to drop the table back onto its posts when its in its desired location

TIA

George

[Greg Hines, MD]

Check out Norms assembly table. He hinges a board to the end legs, for the casters. Two jacks hold the boards down to wheel it around, and then you pull on a rope to disengage them, and it will sit on its legs.

Doc

[Jack Wilson50]

George:

Check this out, you can adapt it to your table.

http://www.woodstore.net/spdotawo.html

Good luck,

Jack

[Stephen Edwards]

Here's a cheap solution that I did a few months back:

http://www.sawmillcreek.org/showthread.php?p=786636#poststop

Good luck with your project!

[Ray Newman]

I built the New Yankee Workshop assembly/cut off table 'bout 4-5 years ago. I had the plans sitting around for some time, I just never got around to it. Well should have built it sooner.

As the Saw Bones posted, it is easy to move around. Very simple, yet sturdy.

[Paul Mayer]

I built one similar to the one on the wood whisperer site. I used 3" locking casters, but with the weight of this table, I never have to lock them. But yet, it is not hard to move when I want to. It just requires a bit more than casual pressure, so in my view it is ideal. I built it at the same height as my TS, so that I can use it for side support during plywood cutting operations.

This design is quite sweet, and the only thing I would do differently, is I would build it longer. I went with a 4x5 top, and in retrospect, would have gone at least 4x6 (which is what the original design called for), and perhaps as long as 4x7, but that would start to get a bit tight in my shop. I love the flat top, the weight/stability, and all of the storage.

[Scott Schwake]

Here's my conceptual design, haven't figured out how to lock the casters in the engaged postition yet.

[glenn bradley]

This is the first thing I built when I re-started this hobby. It was my first and last piece built on the garage floor ;-) It is pretty obviously made by a beginner but it still serves me well.

There are 3 vise positions although the vise doesn't get put on much since the dedicated workbench came into being. The pullout bins hold frequently used power tools and the drawers hold just about anything. The large overhang on two sides is for deep clamping and the storage is nice but i would rather have variable height.

[glenn bradley]

haven't figured out how to lock the casters in the engaged postition yet.

A square slide ring?

[John Jendro]

Here's my conceptual design, haven't figured out how to lock the casters in the engaged postition yet.

I think this table has what your looking for. John

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZyguUCdw4s

[Gary Click]

I think this table has what your looking for. John

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KZyguUCdw4s


Sure is what I was looking for.

[Quesne Ouaques]

This was my solution to supporting and rolling a laminated ash top I got on sale at the local Woodcraft (32" x 110" with the vises). The Veritas and patternmakers vises add a significant amount of heft. It moves nicely, though my concrete floor is not perfectly flat. Occasionally, the 3/4" plywood bottom shelf drags a little on high spots, but hardly enough to notice. I move it a few feet lengthwise every so often to make some walking room, and it really helps.

[Craig Johnson]

Heres mine.
Made from the Wood Whisperer Marc Spagnuolos video "somebody feed me".

http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x123/gearhound17/IMG_2088.jpg